Bug#538122: libclass-mop-perl_0.90-1(powerpc/unstable):

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:09:24PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:39:47 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> 
> > wouter at debian.org writes:
> > > The reason is that libtest-simple-perl is a virtual package. You cannot
> > > have a versioned dependency on a virtual package.
> 
> Not exactly -- libtest-simple-perl is both a virtual package
> (provided by perl-modules) and a real package. That's a bit unlucky
> but there are a few dual-lifed modules in the Perl world.
> 
> Details in the mentioned bug report:
>  
> > sbuild should handle this correctly since 0.57.4-1, see #395271 and the
> > kfreebsd-i386 build log [1].
> 
> Wouter, since you are an experienced buildd maintainer:

Mmm, maybe I shouldn't have done a certain specific blog post ;-)

> is there a way to get a recent version of sbuild (this bug is closed
> since over a year) installed on all buildds?

There's some work on this, yes, but it'll take a while. Short story:
it's currently very much a mess, with some buildd hosts having local
patches, etc. Fleshing this out is part of pkern's Google Summer of Code
program.

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